Three Stones Make A Wall Review

Written by eric cline an archaeologist with more than thirty seasons of excavation experience three stones make a wall traces the history of archaeology from an amateur pursuit to the cutting edge science it is today by taking the reader on a tour of major archaeological sites and discoveries from pompeii to petra troy to the terracotta warriors and mycenae to megiddo and masada.

Three stones make a wall review.

Find helpful customer reviews and review ratings for three stones make a wall. Read honest and unbiased product reviews from our users. Press 2017 480 pp 50 line illus 2 maps 35 hardcover. But three stones makes a wall is a fun informative and scholarly read an updated less romantic and breathless version of c.

It tells the story of archaeology and select archaeologists from various regions of the world and it includes dozens of hand drawn illustrations to help make its points visually. This work also has endnotes and that is its one great weakness. Any australian reader picking up this book may justifiably be dismayed to find the omission of the continent from what is otherwise a fairly wide ranging and balanced survey. Cline brings to life the personalities behind these digs including heinrich schliemann the former.

This entry was posted in culture. The story of archaeology. Three stones make a wall is an overview of a lot of different archaeological sites and how archaeology is actually done there and how it has been done in the past. Three stones make a wall.

On the whole three stones make a wall makes for a very good general introduction to the field though it is far from complete. Three stones makes a wall is an introduction to archaeology s history and practice. Ceram s gods graves scholars.